Trending on Recent OpenTable Restaurant Reviews: Arugula Salad

High spring is serious salad season. Some of the greatest greens are best enjoyed right now, including arugula. Its delicate leaves and a pleasant peppery flavor make this a great complement to sweet and savory ingredients. Also called rocket, arugula is winning rave reviews from OpenTable diners.

* The Bay House, Naples, Florida: “The BLT shellfish salad was outstanding with large chunks of lobster and crab on a perfectly prepared fried green tomato and just the right amount of peppery arugula.”

* Marché Moderne, Costa Mesa, California: “Although this is our favorite OC restauant for which expectations are already extraordinarily high, we were pleasantly surprised with the exquisite heirloom tomato and arugula salad.”

* North, Denver, Colorado: “Had a great experience at North! Started with the calamari, arugula, and grilled lemon salad. Delicious and light!”

* Old Ebbit Grill, Washington, D.C.: ” I would highly recommend the sautéed seafood salad with arugula and a lemon vinaigrette. It has warm shrimp, mussels, calamari, and scallops mixed with mushrooms and roasted red peppers and shaved Parmesan cheese. Yummy.”

* Riffs, Boulder, Colorado: “Both salads, ordered as our first course, were exceptionally delicious. Our arugula salads had very thin slices of lemon peel, which gave the salad a bright, fresh, spring-like flavor, without being overwhelming. The lemon balanced very well with the other elements.”

Caroline Potter

Caroline Potter is the Chief Dining Officer for OpenTable, Inc. She’s a dining trend-spotter and an OpenTable VIP, who dines out more than she eats in and has accrued more than 10,000 Dining Rewards points. Caroline started working in restaurants as a teen and she's since tackled every front-of-the-house job, from bartender and hostess to runner and server. She trained as a chef at Manhattan’s prestigious French Culinary Institute, cooking at L’Ecole. In addition to her role at OpenTable, she has written about food from farm to table for New York City’s famed Greenmarket and Edible Brooklyn and Edible East End magazines. Caroline is also a Certified Master Gardener.